{"id":238987,"date":"2023-04-27T12:24:51","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T06:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=238987"},"modified":"2023-04-27T11:25:22","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T05:55:22","slug":"upsc-interview-2022-transcript-269-manoj-soni-board-sociology-optional-andhra-pradesh-home-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2022-transcript-269-manoj-soni-board-sociology-optional-andhra-pradesh-home-state\/","title":{"rendered":"[UPSC Interview 2022] \u2013 Transcript #269 : Manoj Soni Board, Sociology Optional, Andhra Pradesh Home State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date of Interview:<\/strong> 31st March, Forenoon, 2nd to go, 25 minutes<br \/>\n<strong>Board:<\/strong> Mr. Manoj Soni<br \/>\n<strong>Home State:<\/strong> Andhra Pradesh<br \/>\n<strong>Background:<\/strong> Mechanical Engineering,<br \/>\n<strong>Optional:<\/strong> Sociology<\/p>\n<p>Worked in a School, DIY, and Gadgets<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2022, <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/interview-transcript\/#it2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visit this page<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Chairman<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. We just celebrated Rama Navami yesterday. Tell me in which Indian month and on which day we celebrate Rama Navami<br \/>\n2. What about Krishnashtami<br \/>\n3. Do you know any Indian month names?<br \/>\n4. Is the month (I said) the first one?<br \/>\n5. What about Karthika and Mrugasira?<br \/>\n6. It\u2019s been years since you finished graduation. Don\u2019t you think you should have a backup plan now? I sincerely wish that you should clear this exam. If everything goes bad, what are you going to do?<br \/>\n7. Next, question is bit personal, if you wish not to answer you can avoid answering. You worked only for a period of 1 year and that too for small amount of compensation. How are you managing your expenses?<br \/>\nSignalled the next person to take over<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 1<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>(On a single hobby)<br \/>\n1. What is your this Gadget enthusiasm hobby.<br \/>\n2. How is technology progressing these days and what is the future?<br \/>\n3. Many countries are placing restrictions on internet and what is the outcome of such firewalls?<br \/>\n4. What is this data sovereignty?<br \/>\n5. Who has more data US or China?<br \/>\n6. Is population a factor in measuring volume of data?<br \/>\n7. So China has largest amount of data?<br \/>\n8. How is India acting in data governance?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 2<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>(Name, Mechanical)<br \/>\n1. Tell me which Mahabharata character you relate with apart from Lord Krishna.<br \/>\n2. How a Chimney functions?<br \/>\n3. No no, just explain a conventional chimney?<br \/>\n4. Does this room have a chimney and dont you think the space at the top acts as Ventilator<br \/>\n5. As world is moving towards eVs, what advice you would give to the countries in Persian gulf region<br \/>\n6. You said, you have a backup plan, so, you are not serious about this preparation.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 3<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>(Andhra, Hobby\/Current affairs)<br \/>\n1. Did your state get bifurcated?<br \/>\n2. Tell sociological reasons for the same?<br \/>\n3. In undivided AP, which was the most urbansied town?<br \/>\n4. What is all this fuss about ChatGPT. There\u2019s also an article about the same in today\u2019s newspaper, right?<br \/>\n5. So, what are the ethical issues in using ChatGPT?<br \/>\n6. Okay, what\u2019s the exact issue mentioned in today\u2019s article?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Member 4<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>(Hobby and International Relations)<br \/>\n1. What is this your DIY hobby and what did you do?<br \/>\n2. Let\u2019s go to Israel. How are India\u2019s relations with Israel?<br \/>\n3. Just stick to Israel, Palestine is not required here.<br \/>\n4. Tell specifics, not generic data about Israel relations.<br \/>\n5. Since India and Israel are moving closely, don\u2019t you think we should distance ourselves from Palestine?<br \/>\n6. What is a Free Trade Agreement?<br \/>\n7. With which countries India signed FTA?<br \/>\n8. Do we have a FTA with the US?<\/p>\n<p>Overall experience: Calm and Cordial<\/p>\n<p>Utility of mocks or O2O (if any) &#8211; Gave mocks with VajiRao Reddy, Chahal, Chanakya MP and Samkalp. Samkalp\u2019s panel was not good when I went. First 3 are good.<\/p>\n<p>O2O with Ravindran Sir(Very Good) and Khan sir(Confidence booster)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>To view all IAS Interview Transcripts,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/interview-transcript\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visit this page<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>For full Interview Preparation Guide:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click Here<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Current Affairs For UPSC Exam 2023: <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/current-affairs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click Here<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<div><strong>(This transcript has been posted by a community member of ForumIAS)<\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date of Interview: 31st March, Forenoon, 2nd to go, 25 minutes Board: Mr. Manoj Soni Home State: Andhra Pradesh Background: Mechanical Engineering, Optional: Sociology Worked in a School, DIY, and Gadgets To view all IAS Interview Transcripts 2022, visit this page Chairman 1. We just celebrated Rama Navami yesterday. Tell me in which Indian month&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-interview-2022-transcript-269-manoj-soni-board-sociology-optional-andhra-pradesh-home-state\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[UPSC Interview 2022] \u2013 Transcript #269 : Manoj Soni Board, Sociology Optional, Andhra Pradesh Home State<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[11255,9657,11254,11312,1691],"class_list":["post-238987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public","tag-11255","tag-andhra_pradesh","tag-interview_transcript2022","tag-manoj_soni2022","tag-sociology","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}